R.I.P. Michelangelo Antonioni August 1, 2007

While all film buffs dissected “Blow Up” (1966), not many have seen his banned 1972 documentary (voiced-over by the man himself) of China – “Chung Kuo” during the cultural revolution; an extraordinary exploration of a then closed society.

I quote:
‘ Born 1912. A film critic from the 30’s and an assistant director and documentarist from the early 40’s, he made his first feature, ‘Cronaca di un Amore’ in 1950 and found aide following in his native Italy with the languid and fatalistic ‘Le Ameiche[1955}. In the early 60’she featured Monica Vitti in “L’Avventura[1960]. La Notte {1960} and L’Eclisse (1962}— a melancholic trilogy o women which secured his international reputation and marked him as a formidable interpreter of the seemilgly ainless mordern bourgeois world.
Highlights: “LL Grido {1957} “The Red Desert [1964} “Blow -Up”[1966 AND ” The Playroom”{1970
PS: Just quoting….don’t know him actually…but hear he was a great film director.